Instructors
Chiho Sawada - Stanford University

This course presents a broad survey of Korean historical experiences and cultural forms from antiquity to the present. (It focuses, however, on the

nineteenth and twentieth centuries.) Topics for study include, intera alia:

mytho-history and archaeology; ancient regional cultural contacts and state

formation; premodern socio-cultural and political-economic structures/dynamics; intellectual and artistic traditions; the tragedies and legacies of colonialism and the Korean War; state-society relations in North and South; diasporic (i.e. Korean-American) experiences and identities; globalization and youth culture; various issues of ethnicity,class, and gender. In an attempt to consider a wide array of historical interpretations and (too often neglected) voices, we will engage these topics through a variety of sources: Primary documents and Secondary academic analytical writings, literature, documentary and feature films,Internet forums, etc.

Level
Graduate and undergraduate

Department
Department of Health, Research and Policy
School of Humanities and Sciences